Fixing Some of the Spry Menu Limitations

Example and Tutorial:
http://www.projectseven.com/testing/adobe-bugs/spry-menus/
Spry menus bug me. Not because I dislike Adobe and not even because my company makes menu tools for Dreamweaver. Spry menus bug me because they are targeted at beginners, which are the very group that would not be able to understand or fix the limitations and problems. The little tutorial we prepared seeks to do that. Note, however, there is at least one fatal flaw in the Spry menus that ship with Dreamweaver and that is that the menus will not work in mobile devices. There is no easy fix for this so if you decide to go with Spry menus, understand that the sub-menus will not be accessible in mobile devices. In order to get that fixed one must use Spry 2.0, which does not come with Dreamweaver. Our tutorial is for beginners. It addresses real issues and I would hope it becomes something regularly referenced here.
Enjoy.
Al Sparber - PVII
http://www.projectseven.com
The Finest Dreamweaver Menus | Galleries | Widgets
Since 1998

Most modern menus allow for links on the root to be live. Tap once, the
sub-menu opens. Tap again, the link is executed. This has become the
convention. But keeping the root menu items null would get around the issue.

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Hello,
Thank you so much for replying so quickly and moreover, solving my problem. I must apologise for not doing more research about this issue by searching these forums more thoroughly. I found a similar post here:-
http://forums.adobe.com/message/139937#139937
Your solution goes one step further and eliminates the need to search through the Javascript for the relevant code.
Thank you again, you've helped me a great deal.
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[svn:bz-trunk] 13884: Fix some of the checkstyle warnings, no code change.

Revision: 13884
Revision: 13884
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2010-01-29 09:23:18 -0800 (Fri, 29 Jan 2010)
Log Message:
Fix some of the checkstyle warnings, no code change.
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